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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORITZ ULRICH, J OHANN BAMMANN, AND MARTIN HERZBERG, OF ELBER- FELD,GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO THE FARBENFABRIKEN, VORMALS FR.

BAYER & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

BROWN DYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,381, dated February27, 1894.

Application filed May 3, 1893. Serial No. 472,825. (Speoimensh To allwhom it may concern.- Be it known that we, MORITZ ULRICH, J o- HANNBAMMANN, and MARTIN HERZBERG, doctors of philosophy, chemists, andassignors to the FARBENFABRIKEN,VORMALS FR. BAYER & 00., of Elberfeld,subjects of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Elberfeld, Prussia,Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufactureof Coloring- 1o Matters; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull and exact description of .the invention. I

Ourinvention relates to the manufacture of a brown substantivecoloring-matter resultmg from the action of one molecular proportion ofdiazoalphanaphthalene upon one molecular proportion of the coloringmatter formed by combining one molecular proportion oftetrazodiphe'nylchlorid with one molecglar proportion ofamidonaphtholdisulfoacl and one molecular proportion ofmetaphenylenediamin.

The new brown coloring-matter has the following formula:

(NI-I :SO H: SO H: OH=1: 3: 6: 8)

dissolved in fifteen liters of water are poured with careful coolinginto the solution of the above tetrazo compound. The intermediateproduct from equal molecular proportions of tetrazodiphenylchlorid andamidonaphtholdisulfoacid separates by the addition of an excess ofsodium acetate in the state of a gelatinous precipitate. When afterstanding for some time the reaction is completed, the whole mixture isadded to a Watery solution containing 1.61 kilos, by weight, of metaphenylene diamin, and then the resulting mixture is neutralized byadding a concentrated solution in water of six kilos, by weight, ofsodium carbonate (Na OO When after some time the formation of theintermediate dyestuff is complete, the liquid mixture is heated and theintermediate dye-stuff is salted out 0 by means of common salt, filteredofi and pressed. The thus obtained coloring-matter without drying isdissolved in water containing five kilos, by weight, of sodium carbonate(Na CO and then a solution of diazonaph- 7o thalenechlorid is addedwhich is prepared in the well known manner from 2.3 kilos, by weight, ofalpha naphthylamin by means of nine kilos, by Weight, of hydrochloricacid (20 Baum) and 1.1 kilos, by weight, of sodium nitrite. The newcoloring-matter, the formation of which is completed after some time byraising slowly the temperature of the reaction mixture to about 100centigrade, is salted out, filtered off, pressed and dried.

The dye-stuff has the following properties: It forms a brownish-blackpowder easily soluble in hot water with violet-blue color, soluble inammonia with violet-red color, insoluble in concentrated soda-lye andhydrochloric acid (20 Baum). By concentrated sulfuric acid (66 Baum) itis dissolved with a blue color, while on adding ice water to thesulfuric acid solution a dark brown precipitate is separated. go

The dye-stuff has the following composition:

NH O6H4 N:N C1OH3 so SO Na l (3 H --N:N-(3 H TH NH O1 H7 NN/ 2 Itproduces on unmordanted cotton brown shades and, when fixed on thefiber, it can be diazotiz'ed and directly be coupled with any dye-stuffcomponent, (for instance beta naphtho1,) shades fast to washing andsoaping being thus obtained.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The process of producinga new coloring matter, which consists intreating tetrazo-die phenyl chlorid with one molecular proportion ofamidonaphtholdisulfo-acid (NH S0 H:SO H.OI-I 1: 3: 6: 8),

adding to the resulting product one molecular proportion ofmetaphenylene diamin, and acting on the dye stufi thus produced with onemolecular proportion of diazoalpha-naphtha lene chlorid, as hereinbeforedescribed.

2. The process for producing a new coloring matter by causing onemolecular proportion of diazo naphthalene chlorid to act with onemolecular proportion of the intermediate dye-stuff hereinbeforedescribed derived from tetrazo diphenyl chlorid, amido naphthol disulfoacid, and meta phenylene diamin, substantially as described.

3. The newcoloring-matter having the foland which is a brownish-blackpowder, easily soluble in hot water with violet-blue color, 40 solublein ammonia with violet-red color, insoluble in concentrated soda-lye andhydrochloric acid of 20 Baum, but soluble in concentrated sulfuric acidwith a blue color, from which solution, on addition of ice water, 45 adark brown precipitate separates, and having the qualities substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names in presence of twosubscribing witmesses. V

MORITZ ULRICH. JOHANN BAMMANN. MARTIN l-IERZBERG. Witnesses:

WM. ESSENWEIN, RUDOLPH FRICKE.

